Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Obama marks Iraq war's end with a salute to troops (AP)
• Witness: Reflecting on Iraq as U.S. troops withdraw (Reuters)
• New York's U.S. attorney returns smuggled dinnerware to Iraq (Reuters)
• Doubts, fears nag Iraqis as U.S. pulls out (Reuters)
• U.S. military chapter in Iraq draws to a close (Reuters)
• Analysis: Obama can't say it enough: Iraq war over (AP)
• Obama: Troops leaving Iraq with heads held high (Reuters)
• As Iraq war ends, strange hush descends on US bases (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Double bombing kills 2 in northern Iraq (AP)
• It's Time for Iraq to Defend Iraq (ContributorNetwork)
• US returns stolen Saddam Hussein plates to Iraq (AP)
• Bombs kill three, injure 35 in north Iraq: police (Reuters)
• Nine years on, Iraq's economic potential still untapped (Reuters)
• Iraqis unable to defend their borders as US exits (AP)
• Iraq: Bomb attacks force drop in oil production (AP)
• Bombs halve Iraq's Rumaila oilfield output: officials (Reuters)
• Bombs halve Iraq's Rumaila output; exports normal: officials (Reuters)

Obama marks Iraq war's end with a salute to troops (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 05:43 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama on Wednesday saluted troops returning from Iraq, asserting that the nearly nine-year conflict was ending honorably, "not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home."

Witness: Reflecting on Iraq as U.S. troops withdraw (Reuters) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 05:05 PM PST Reuters - "Three days after U.S. tanks rolled into Baghdad in April 2003, I had my first encounter with an American marine. I opened my door to find him crouched on the street and holding a pump action shot gun.

New York's U.S. attorney returns smuggled dinnerware to Iraq (Reuters) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 04:20 PM PST Reuters - Now that President Barack Obama has declared the war over in Iraq, it's time the country got its tableware back. And the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York is happy to handle the job.

Doubts, fears nag Iraqis as U.S. pulls out (Reuters) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 03:41 PM PST Reuters - Zahora Jasim lost two brothers to bombs and gunmen in the years of turmoil and violence that followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

U.S. military chapter in Iraq draws to a close (Reuters) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 03:36 PM PST Reuters - Nearly nine years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq ousted Saddam Hussein, American troops are pulling out and leaving behind a country still battling insurgents, political uncertainty and sectarian divisions.

Analysis: Obama can't say it enough: Iraq war over (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 01:43 PM PST AP - Over and over, the Iraq war is over.

Obama: Troops leaving Iraq with heads held high (Reuters) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 12:53 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama welcomed home some of the last U.S. troops from Iraq on Wednesday, marking a symbolic end to the nearly nine-year war that strained America's armed forces and damaged its standing worldwide.

As Iraq war ends, strange hush descends on US bases (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 12:51 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - In the final days of the Iraq war, US troops here have increasingly become sightseers as they await their flights back home.

Double bombing kills 2 in northern Iraq (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 10:52 AM PST AP - Iraqi officials say a double bombing in northern Iraq has killed at least two people and wounding dozens.

It's Time for Iraq to Defend Iraq (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 10:45 AM PST ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | Nine years and $1 trillion later, we now find out Iraqi security forces are incapable of defending their own borders. This is ominous news for the U.S. military, which spent nearly a decade training the Iraqis.

US returns stolen Saddam Hussein plates to Iraq (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 10:11 AM PST AP - Authorities in New York City say the United States is giving the Iraqi government stolen dinnerware once used by Saddam Hussein.

Bombs kill three, injure 35 in north Iraq: police (Reuters) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 07:41 AM PST Reuters - Two car bombs exploded near shops and restaurants in the Iraqi town of Tal Afar on Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding 35 others, a police source said.

Nine years on, Iraq's economic potential still untapped (Reuters) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 06:15 AM PST Reuters - Four years ago, Iraq's oil minister Hussain al-Shahristani confronted a stark choice: should he risk opening Iraq's ailing oil industry to foreign companies?

Iraqis unable to defend their borders as US exits (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 03:36 AM PST AP - After billions of dollars and nearly nine years of training, American troops are leaving behind an Iraqi security force arguably capable of providing internal security but unprepared to defend the nation against foreign threats at a time of rising tensions throughout the Middle East.

Iraq: Bomb attacks force drop in oil production (AP) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 02:48 AM PST AP - The Iraqi Oil Ministry says production at the country's largest oil field has been cut in half by bomb attacks on domestic oil pipelines.

Bombs halve Iraq's Rumaila oilfield output: officials (Reuters) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 02:33 AM PST Reuters - Output at Iraq's Rumaila oilfield has been halved from about 1.4 million barrels per day after a bombing hit southern pipelines, but crude exports were normal, Iraqi officials said on Wednesday.

Bombs halve Iraq's Rumaila output; exports normal: officials (Reuters) Posted: 14 Dec 2011 12:30 AM PST Reuters - Output at Iraq's Rumaila oilfield has been halved from about 1.4 million barrels per day after a bombing hit southern pipelines, but crude exports were normal, Iraqi officials said on Wednesday.

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